awards Archives - Summer Owens S.O. What! https://summerowens.com/tag/awards/ S.O. What! Fri, 05 May 2023 06:52:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 https://i0.wp.com/summerowens.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/cropped-Summer-Owens-S.O.-What.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 awards Archives - Summer Owens S.O. What! https://summerowens.com/tag/awards/ 32 32 152051023 The Success of the Inaugural S.O. What! Awards and Scholarship Soiree https://summerowens.com/s-o-what-awards-and-scholarship-soiree/ https://summerowens.com/s-o-what-awards-and-scholarship-soiree/#respond Fri, 05 May 2023 05:09:39 +0000 https://summerowens.com/?p=23303 One night about six years ago, I had a dream about an awards and scholarship program. I’ve been a part of several awards programs either as a recipient or helping to plan the event, and I knew I wanted this one to be special. On April 29, 2023 my dream was realized. With the help […]

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]]> https://summerowens.com/s-o-what-awards-and-scholarship-soiree/feed/ 0 23303 3 Lessons From Hosting the 40th Distinguished Alumni Awards at the University of Memphis https://summerowens.com/hosting-the-40th-distinguished-alumni-awards/ https://summerowens.com/hosting-the-40th-distinguished-alumni-awards/#respond Sat, 30 Jul 2022 06:59:03 +0000 https://summerowens.com/?p=22427 In 2019 when I became the president of the University of Memphis Alumni Association National Board of Directors, hosting the 40th Distinguished Alumni Awards (DAA) program was something I looked forward to doing at the end of my term. For me, it was so much more than being able to host an awards program. In […]

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]]> https://summerowens.com/hosting-the-40th-distinguished-alumni-awards/feed/ 0 22427 What Happened When I Told It https://summerowens.com/what-happened-when-i-told-it-i-told-my-story/ https://summerowens.com/what-happened-when-i-told-it-i-told-my-story/#respond Thu, 12 Oct 2017 06:15:15 +0000 http://summerowens.wordpress.com/?p=632 When I started writing my first book, Life After Birth: A Memoir of Survival and Success as a Teenage Mother, I just wanted to tell my story. Mainly, I wanted to encourage every teen mother not to give up herself, not to quit high school, and show her that she could have everything she could […]

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]]> https://summerowens.com/what-happened-when-i-told-it-i-told-my-story/feed/ 0 632 20 Years Later. 4 Lessons Learned as a Teen Mom High School Graduate. https://summerowens.com/20-years-later-4-lessons-learned-as-teen-mom-high-school-graduate/ https://summerowens.com/20-years-later-4-lessons-learned-as-teen-mom-high-school-graduate/#respond Wed, 31 May 2017 10:49:24 +0000 https://summerowens.wordpress.com/?p=3555 May 23, 1997 marked the end of my high school career and the beginning of my adult life. I was armed with a high school diploma…and a two-year old son. I had no idea that what had been the hardest part of my life up to that point would define me as a woman, establish […]

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